Motives for Participating in the Religious Experience
A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1968]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1968, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-251 |
Further subjects: | B
Religious experience philosophy
B Statistical variance B Demography B Factor analysis B Morality B Liberal arts education B Sharing B Catholicism B Religious Freedom B Q sort |
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Summary: | A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance to me." A principal components inverse factor analysis yielded seven interpretable clusters of people (types): the humble servants of God; the self-improvers; the family guidance seekers; the moralists; the God-seekers; the socially-oriented servants of God; the religious eggheads. These clusters correspond to dimensions found in other studies. Degree of membership in clusters related meaningfully to personal, social and demographic variables. |
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ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384632 |